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Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1859-11-08

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VOLUME XXIII; MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1859. NUMBER 29; IS eCBLIftBrD ETMtT TliewiAT MOMIM, DTL.1IARPER. Office in TyoAdxard's Block, Third Story TERMS T'rNers rr annnro, payable in ed-vauoo; IJ.ftO within tit months: $3.00 after the ex-'pLraiioo of the year. Clcba of twenty, $1,50 eh. a av a ISTIIflllllt to 6 o a ; o v . a e S 5 B S 7.5" e.$ e.f-e .1 1 Wr, - 1 00 I 25,1 11 2 25 3 00.3 60 4 0 9 tO 1 T 7 n 1 &U 26 6 00 R 71 8 00 7 OoJb 00(1o t 80 3 60 4 30 5 CS A 00 4 jor, 1 CO I 00 s oolc 00 7 00 3 00.10 111 m4rTeaffM mntkly. 410 vlly .......... 15 g ckanpatlc ywirltrly, ................... ..... 18 f olmmm, rangrhU quarterly ............. 15 molumn, cangtabl quarterly, 20 1 eooma. agtnbU qmarteriy,. 45 gXf Twelve lines of Minien, (this type) are counted m a sqaare. p& Ed 1 tori' 1 aotieee of drertltncn, o calling :atwn4oa ay enterprise intended to benefit lndi-Vtdaal or eorporatione, will be eharged for at the yaee of 1 0 eente per line. . Special sotioet, bef ve marriage, or taking Vreoedenee of vegnlas atlvertteemente, double nana rates. " Kotleei for meetings, ebentable soaiettei,Crc ?&t4 for 50 .u ', Death. 31 eenta, nttleea accompanied by obttaario, which ell k. L a 1 X I . rtll be eharjred lor at regular advertliinjr raid C pSr Advertisements diiplayed in Urg type to be harped one-balf more than regular rntee. 9AU uenlMt ad.veUaementa to be paid for la dvaoee. gabies' fpartmcnt. The Hother. Scarcely a day passes that we do not hear of the loveliness of woman, the aflVet ion of a si ter, or the ue voted nens of awiie; and it is the remembrance of such things that, cheers and comU),U I be dreariest hour of hff j jtt a nioth-r' love far exceeds theiri in strength, in disinie rested ties-i and in pRrity. The child of her bos om may htve forsaken her and left her ; he may have disregarded all her instructions and warnings, he may have become an outcast fron society; and noiie may care fur or notice him yet h'n motner changes not, nor is her luve wenken-ed, and for hiin her prayers will ascend ! Sickness may weary other triends inUforiivne drive away familiar acquaintance?, and poverty leave none to lean upon ; yet they affect not a moih-. er'a love, but only call into exercise in a still greater degree her tenderness and aGVction. The mother has duties to perform which lire weighty and responsible j tboJispirii irjfnt must b taught bow to live the thoaghileSs child most be instructed in wisdom' ways Use tempted youth be advised and warned the dangers and difficulties of life must bo pointed out, and lessons of virtue must be itn pressed On the mind. Her words, acts, faults, frailties and temper, an: all noticed by those that 6urround h-r, and im pressions in the nursery exrt more pofiri"ul in fluence in farming the character, thiD do after instruction. All passions are unrestrained if truth is not adhered to if consistency is not seen if. there be want of affection or a rn'irruuring at the dis pennations of provideuce ; the youthful mit:d will receive the impression, an J subsequent life will develop it ; but if ail is purity, einceriiy, truth, contentment afidJove, then the result be a blessingnd many will n joice in the example and influence of the pious mother. Good Advice to Younj "Wonea. Trust not lo uucertain riches, but prepare yon-selves for every s emergency in life. - Leirn to work, and do not depend on servants lo make jodr bread ; sweep your fi iors anddrn your own stockings. Above all, do not esteem too lightly those honorable young men who sustain themselves and their aged parents by the work of their own hands, while you enressand receive into your company those lazy, idle popirjays, who never Jift.a finger to help themselves as long as they can keep body and soul together, and gel funds sufficient o live in fashion. If you are wise, you-will look at this subject in the light we do, and when yon are old enough to become wives you will prefer the honest mechanic, with not a ceut to commence life, to the fashionable loafer, with a capital of ten thousand dollars. TIT l 1 . . . r uenever we near remarked, - cfucn a young latdy married a fortune, we always tremble for ber future prosperity. Riches left to children by wealthy parents turn oat to be a corse instead of a blessings. Young women, remember this, and instead of sounding the purse of your lovers and examining the cut of their coats, look iato their habits and their hearts. Mark if they have a trade, and can depend opon themselves see that they have minds which will lead them to look above a butterfly existewe. Talk not of the beautiful while skin and soft delicate hand, the splendid form and flue appearance of the young gentlemen. Let not, these foolish considerations engross yoor thoughts." - Teach the Women tf Save. There's the secret. A 8a ving woman at the bead of a family is the very best savings bank yet established one thai receives deposits daily and hoarly, wiih ao costly machinery to manage it. The idea of saving is a pleasant one, and if the womea" woU imbibe it once, they woold CaltivaU and adhere to it, and thus many when they were awart of it, wonld b Uying the ! fcoadatioa to m exapetaac, aeourity ia ft mj lima, and iheher in a rainy 4ay. The wo-maa who seas to her own fcoort has a large field i ta aava iaf and the best way to make her comprehend it Is for ber to keep an account of enr- . rest xpensea. Probably not m wife Ja tea has as idsahow mnch araths expeaditores of ber- . self or family , Where from one or tvo thoasand 'ddtiar are expended annnally there is chttfc t3 save' Krraelbiog, if the attempt' is only made. Xet the hoasewifa Uka the idea act npoa it i . trlve over it and ' she wilt lire ' many ionrperIipi handreds where before she rjbl it irspcr;:U9. This is daf sot a prompting of avarice a- moral obligation that rests upon nil- upon tbe women" as well as he men; bat it is a duty, we are sorry to say, that is cultivated very little, even among those Who preach the most, aod regard themselves as examples to most matters. u Teach the women to save," is a good enough maxim to be inserted in the next edition of ''Poor Richard's Almanac," ints on Dcaltjj. The Swing1 as a Care for Consumption. Dr. Lawson Loner, of Holyyoke, Mass. writes to the editor of the Springfield Republican as fallows: I wish to say a few to "whom it may concern'' on the use of the swiog one of the gymnastic exercises as a preventive and cure of pulmonary disease. I mean the suspending of the boJy by the hands, by means of a strong rope, or chain-, fastened to a beam at one end, and at the other a Stick three feel long, convenient to grasp with the baudr. The rope should be fastened to the center of the stick, which should hang six or eight inches above the head. Let a person grasp this stick, wi;h the hands two or three feet apart, and swinj very moderately, at first P"h-I" be" h " Very weuk-and gradually increase,. as the muscles gain strength from the exercise, until it may be freely used from three to five ti toes daily. The connection of the arms with the body (with the exception of the clavicle with the ter-duo or breaai-boue,) being a muscular attach ment to the ribs, the effect of this exercise is to elevate the ribs and enlarge the chest; and as nature allows no vacuum, the lungs expand to till the cavity, increasing the volume of air the natural purifier of the blood and preventing congestion or the deposit of tuberculous matter-I have prescribed the above for air cases of he morrage of the lungs and thtealened consumption for thirty-five years, and have been able to iacrease the meHsure of the chest from two to four inches within a few mouths, and always with jrood res ii lis. lint, especially, as a preventive, I would recommend ibis exercise. Let those who love life cultivate a well formed, capacious chest. The student, the merchaut, the sedentary, the young of boh sexes aye, all should have a swing upon which to stretch themselves daily; and I am morally certain that if this were to be practiced by the rising generation, in a dress al-' lowing a free and full development of the lody thousands, yes ten of thousands would be saved from the ravages of that approbrium, coasump' tiuu. Valae of Pure Water. : Ilealth, can as well be upportd wilhobt pure water as without pure air. When either of these essentials of life are deteriorated by Bdmitture of foreign matters, disease will be a common if not a constant attendant. The ancients were aware of this fact. An old Roman writer informs Us that the livers and spleens of animals were inspect d in order to. judge of the salubrity of the waters and alimentary productions of a country, and to regulate accordingly the sites for- the constructions of cities. The size and ,had state of the above mentioned organs are, in fact, a pretty cer.ain sign of the uilalubrity of the pasturage and bad qualify of the waters. The rot in sheep, for example, is a disease of the liver and is generated by pasturing on low marshv grounds, and by drinking the water of Stagnant pools or ponds. The horse is known to thrive better when supplied with soft water, tbaii he will if obliged to drink hard water. The latter gives his coat a rough, unhealthy appearance; and his own in stinct prompts him, often to drink muddy rain water in preference to very hard well water. The inhabitants of a country exposed to the double infl'ience of bad water, and impure air, suffer much from disease, liad air will be comparatively innoeuoos, if pains be taken topro cure pure water. - Painful and unseemly eruptions of the skin, indigestion, and many other complaints, have been caused by the long use of bad water and have been cured by a substitution of this beverage in a purer state. Water used for domestic purposes, is commonly spoken of as soft or Jiard. Rain," snow,- and ice water, are examples of the former. Hard water is generally obtained from wells or springs The hardness depends chiefly on holding in so Tution super-carbonate of lime, (chalk) or sulphate of Time, (plaster of Paris) or both. A very small proportion of either of these salts is sufficient to give water the character of hardness? whereby it curdles in place of dissolving or in timately mixing with soap. River water is herd or soft, according to the j nature of the country through which it flows. The purest river water is that which Hows over a gravelly surface with a swift course. . . Exercise in the Open Air;-Moderate exercise m the open air, for the fjnr pose of assisting the various secretions, is another essential requisite for the prodoction and maintenance of good health. None can neglect this rule win impunity; bnta sedentary life is certainly not so detrimenUl to those who live on vegetable aiet. Unless sufficient oxygen be supplied to the longs by daily exercise in the open air, the : prodacts of Jeeonpoattioa will fail te be removed in sofScient faantity for the main tenance of a bealtby state; and the assimilation of new oaatter is impeded. Withoat exer'eise, also, the eootradile power of the heart and large Wfteries is feebly exerted; ; aed, though sofScieBt o carry the Wood t9 the ultimate tissue, it is oerertheless not strong enough to carry it through with the rapidity necessary for health. The olti mate tissue being thus filled faster than it is emptied, congestioa Ukes place in those delicate and important vessel 'which compose it; as'welVas ia thalatrgs Teliu, the See of which is to oa-fey the blood from the tiasaa to the heart. One of the chief condiatma of the body, id that generally ; U state of tealtSt uaaUy deBominated HiMilo'DtmU WBjtttica cf Uxi ia t&t'a&i- mte tissue of our organs the brain, the lungs, the spinal mat-raw, the stomach, the ganglionic system, the liver, bowels, and all the organs concerned in the nutrition of the body. 7hen the system, therefore, nndebilitated by disease, will admit a good supply of oxygen by mnscolar ex ercise, it is the best means of diminishing the amount of vinous blood, and (in conjunction with a le?iiiraate supply of proper food) of increasing the amonnt of arterial, blood: and in proportion as the latter preponderates over the former, shall we possess health and muscular strength, as well as elasticity of mind, Smith's Frtiils Farinaeea. Useful Medical Hint. The Medical Journal says: If a person swallow any pOisoa whatever, or has fallen into convulsions from having overloaded the stomach, an instantaneous remedy, more efficient and appli cable in a large number of causes than any half a dozen medicines we can now think. of, is a teaspoonful of common salt, and as much ground mustard stirred rapidly in a teacup of wafer, warm or cold, and swallowed instantly. It is -carcely down before it begins to come up bringing with it the remaining contents of the stom. acb; and lest there be any remnant of poison, however small, let the white of an egg, or a tea-cupful of strong coffee, be swallowed as soon as the stomach is quiet; because these very common articles nullify a larger number of virulent poisons than any medicines in the thops. In cAses of Scalding or burning the body, immersing the part in the cold water gives entire relief as instatjtaneonsly as lightning. Meanwhile, get some common dry floor, and apply it an inch or two thick on the irjured part the moment it emerges from the water, and keep on pprinkling the flour through anything like a pepper-box cover so as to put on evenly. Do nothing else, drink nothing but water, eat nothing, until improvement commences, except some dry bread,sof-tei ed in very weak tea of som'e kind. Cores of frightful buruinirs, have been performed in this way, K8 witiiderful as they are painless. We once svtd the life of an ; -infant which had. bt en inadvertently drugged with laU lanum and which was fast sinking i..to the sleep which has no waking, by giving it strong coffee, cleared with the white of an egg, a teaspoonful every "live mintites until itcea.sc-d to be drowsy." DON'T DEPEND ON FATHER. : Stand up here, young man, and. let us talk to yob. Von have trusted alone to the contents of i.':fathers purse," or to his ffir fame for your in- fluence t success in htfsinesS. Think you that "father" has attained to eminence in his profession but by unwearied industry? or that be has amassed a fortune honestly without energy and activity? You should know that the faculty requisite for the acquiring of fame and fortune is essential to, nay, inseparable from the retaining of either of these? Suppose ' father'' has the "rocks' in abundance; if you never earned anything for "him. you have no more business with lnose ""ocks" than a gosling has with a tortoise! nMf he allowa-ybnto meddle with them till you have learued their value by your own industry, he perpetrates untold mischief. And if the old ?e" eman 13 lavj6n , r hia cash towards you, while he allows you to idle away your time; you had better leave him; yeS, run away, sooner than be made an imbecile of a scoundrel through so cotttipting an influence; Sooner or later you must learn to rely on your own resources, or you will not be auybody. If you have ever helped yourself at all, if you have becomo idle, If you have eaten father's bread and butter and smoked father's cijjafs cut ft swell in father's baggy, and tried to put on fathers influence and reputation, I you might far better have been apoorcaral boy, the son of a chimney sweep, or a boot black and indeed we would not swap with you the situation of a poor, half starved motherless calJl Miserable objects you are, that tlepend entirely upon 70ur parenU, playing gentleman (alias dandy loafer). What in the name of common sense are you thinking of ? Wake op there! Go to work with eitber yoor bands or yonr brains, or botb, arid do something! Don't tberely have it to boast that you have growh in "father's" house that you have vegetatod as other greenhorns! but let folks know that you count one. Come, off with your koit, clinch the saw, the plow bandies, the scythe, he axe, the pickaxe, the spade anything that will enable you to stir your blood! "Fly round and tear your jacket," rather than be the recipient of the old gentle man's bounty. Sooner tbipR play the dandr at dad's expense, hire yourself out to some potato patch, let yourself to stop hog holes, or watch the bars; and when you think yourself entitled to a resting spell, do it on your own. hook. If you have no other means of having fun of yooi o wn, buy with your earnings an em pty barrel, and put your head into it and boiler, or get into it and roll down hill. Don't for pity's sake, don't make the old gentleman do everything, and yoa live at your. ease. ; . Look about you, yon welUresSed, smooth' faced, do-Dothing drones? Who are threy that have worth and influence rft society? Are they those that have depended alone on the old gentleman's purse? or are they those that have climbed their way to their position by their industry and energy? True, the old gentleman's funds, or personal influence, may secure yoa the forms of respect, bat let him lose bis property, or die, and what are you? A miserable fledgling a bunch of flesh aod bones that needs to be takes care of I : v" : . ' ; . . . :V Agaia we say, Srake sp get sp in the. more-iag turn round, at least twice before breakfast help the old to an give him now and then a generous lift in business learn how, take the lead, and aot depend forever on being led; and yon have do idea bow the discipline will benefit you.. Do t&sv sad oar word for.it, yon will eem to breathe a new atmosphere, pt3ef anew frame tread on new earth, wake to a ntw destiny and yon may then begin to aspire to manhood. Take tZt then that tin T frcn yoor EUy f --tr, VrV ijoutljs' gcjiavimmt. your cane, shave your upper Sp, wipe your nose, bold up yoor head, and, by til means, never a-gaiu eat the bread of idleness, jrca oepkvd 05 fatbcr! - ' She gemocratk gamier THE HARPER'S FEBBY IXSlRRECTIOX, Prominent Republicans Implicated. To present from the published correspondence of Col. H. Forbes, such facts as would appear to connect many prominent Republicans with the operations of the notorious Capt. Brown-These letters, were addressed to F. B. Sanborn-whois, or or was, tb Secretary of the Massach, usetts Emigrant Aid 'Society? This Col, H. Forbes was connected with Garibaldi in the defence of Rome in the revolution of 1848. Coming to the United Siatet, be seems to have been employed by the Abolitionists in connection with Brown to opemte in Kansas and elsewhere, as it might be deemed advUable. Col. Forbes, it ap pears, was to receive fundi from, his employers to be transmitted to kis family in Europe, in consideration of bis services; but it turns out thai the contract made with him by the Aboli tionists was not performed on their part, and the consequence was that lis family was greatly im' poverished. . . The Erst letter is dsted in New York on the 9th of January, 1838, and tecounts the sufferings of his family, and the din-performance of bis employers in the matter of pay, 4c.-" THK AKSWER BE OUT FROtt HOHi.CE OKEELCT.. In this name letter to Sanborn, Forbes says that Mr. Greeley told him' that he (Forbes) was alone to blame, that he oight to have known the money promised would not be paid, and although Mr. Greeley believed in thfc higher law, there was no way in which he (Forbes) could obtain redress by the lower law, aid iu this way excused the non-performance of tba contract which had been made with Forbes. ; REFEBEKCE TO SENATOR StMXER AKD aMOS T.aW You express surprise at biy letter -to Mr. Sumner, a3 if that were the first you ever heard on the subject. How, then,Jast summer, did you write from Massachusetts lo Cupt. B. at Tabor, Iowa, teliinjr:him that I hnti a few days previous br-en at -Davenport, on. ml .way; to join him? You sav that Mr. Amos Liwrenoe probably never beard of my. name. hbw, then, did he eive Capt. 13. a copy of tny 'Volunteer's nul?" 1 repent that every efifcrt . to shuffle off the responsibility makes the natter worse, and evey hour of d-Uy in forwardhg aid aggravates the crime,: Ordinary Stvagei would not behave so brutally. The very cantkibils do hot feed on the women and children of htir Own party they devour only such of their enemies As" they can catch. Vfe; U- FORBES. -, The next letter is to tie same person, and is prefaced by. the following head note: On tlie I5th January Mr. S inborn replied to jnine of the Sih. lie explained that he had tlo ie much to aid the catse; that he had caused $3,000 in moneyand aras to be given to Cot-B., also $J,0()0 to be voed for by the Chicago committee; of which he hd received $300; also had done many other thivgs of a similar nature as $l00, recently, for "lecret service" adding that, if he" had known if the engagement between Captain B. and myelf he would have sup- ported my wie and chilrert, rather than allow what has happened to tale place. . REFERENCE TO OERHITSXITH AXD OTHERS. When I left Ioa, thoigh iutensely anxious respecting my family, I did feel considerable confidence that the letter I had in October sent to Gerrit Smith had expkined the urgency of sending quickly succor tc Paris. Also, T felt a certain assurance that these sent to Mr. Joseph Bryant, of New York, hd convinced him that no delay oueht to b alicwed in forwarding assistance." But on reachitg the farm of young Brown, of Ohio, (where f was most kiudly received,) I got a letter ffon Mr. Morton, inform-: ing me that Mr. Smith ba'ing been very ill had not yet opened any of hit letters. . Mr Bryant did nothing. I also reeeved there the letter from Paris, dated Novemler I, already alluded to in my last; and then I taw that ray fears had not been exaggerated or mfounded, as Captain B. had almost persuaded ce that they were. ; Iu bis letter of January lath, to Sanborn, he refers to Capt. Brown, in tlis wise: JOHX BROWW'S ACCOr.KT VITn THI ABOLTTIOX TREascit; . There certainly is one eforj ind ihre nisy be others, in your letter of th 15ih, respecting 'the-sums rece:ved by Captain Brown; The National Committee which promBed-$5000, sent $150, (not $500 as you supposed, and tlie person who hrought the $150 charged $40 for expenses, leaving $110 only; This was all Captain Brown had when 1 joined him at labor. I am sure that bo would have given me. noney if he bad it any other stipbsition is out of the question. I cannot blame him for belitving in the force of mor! obligations. I only think that be was not sufficiently energetic in insininy upon their fulfilment. They are optional to make; bat once made are sacred Mr. Tidd, sent on a financial mission, may have brooght more in November. SECRET SERTICB VOXET. ' The $500 for secret service yoa speak of as being enough for the purpose, is not enough. This is another error, and a curious one. ; nrTERVlEW WtTHSEWARD. Washington, May 6, 1858. To Dr. S. "a Howe, M." D., Boston, Uass.: On Saturday (1st May) I bad an interview wixh Senator Win. H.Seward, of New York, having been introduced to him through a letter from a leading Abolitionist, Dr. Bailey, of the Era. I went fut iy into the whole' matter, io all its bearings. He expressed regret that h had been told, and said that he, in hia position, oaght not to have been informed of the circa instance, i In part I agree with bim and in part I diffr. I regret that the misconduct of the New Enelanders should have forced me to . address myself to him; bat being now enlightened on the subject, he cannot U Ut this hasieees eontiene ia its present crooked condition, instead of causing' h to be Mpntetraigbt," both as regards xaf childrew's ntuatiea as well as the cotton speculation of the humanitarians. .Forbes, next mentions an accidental meeting with J ohn P. Hale,' but such was the distress of his family that be did sot thes refer to Brown p!- , r :; ; :. '". -' -T 4, The next letter is crefaced .. witi'tie,icJIowicg memorandum : ..-:-:: r ; .-: wpeaae shew to Uessrs.- Saaborn, LawreDce, t-9i Cov"im will H f- t" Govt -t f" , wv- found money, and Governor Fletcher, who contributed arms, and to others interested, as quickly as possible. - . . "Dr. S. G. Howe, M. D Boston, Mas." The letter referred to. in the above is dated at Washington, D. C, May 14, 1858, and addressed to S. G. Howe, Boston. . This letter gives his own and Brown's plans of operating on the Southern States. Forbes plan was to organize along the Southern slave frontier a series. of slave stampedes. But the following is more to the point: " . , . browk's rui. Brown had a different scheme. He proposed with some twentrfiv6 or fifty (colored and white mixed,) well armed, and bringing a quantity of arms, iguM up w aiave quiner in v irginia. To this I object that, no preparatory notice having been given to the slaves (no notice could, with prudence, be given them,) the invitation to rise might, unless they were already in a state of agitation, meet with no response, or a feeble one. To this be replied that he was sure of a response. He calculated' that he could get, on the first nicrbt, from 200 to 500. Half, or thereabouts, of this first lot he proposed to keep with him, mounting 100 or so of them, and make a dash at Harper's Ferry mann-factory, destroying what he could not carry off. The other men not of this party were to be subdivided into three, four or five distinct parties, each uhdet- two or three of the original band, and wou.d beat up other slave quarters, whence more men would be sent to join him. ' BROWN TO BE STOPPED AKD DISARMED. For these and many other reasons I call on you and your associates to stop Brown, and to take from bim yonr arms, 4c. I have a right to exact this, and I do exact it. To your assertion that to stop Brown, I would denounce and betray, I echo what the Abolitionists here say, that if you do not, by taking from him your arms etc., stop him, you betray them, for this concerns the Abolitionists, and they have a rbht lb be neara. Black Eepublican Complicity in the Harper's Ferry Insurrection. 'The evidences of the complicity of such leading Black Republicans as Senator Seward, of N. York; Senators Wilson and Sumner of Massa chusetts'; Senator Halo and Ex-Governor Fletcher, of New Hampshire ; Governor Chase, of Ohio ; Hon. Gerrit Smith, ex-member of Congress ; Rev. Joshua Leavitt, of New York ; flor- acs Greeley, of the Iribune, and others, in the Harper's Ferry Tnsurrection, are daily accumu lating; and when the curtain shall have risen up on all the facts, no one will doubt that Brown's treasonable and bloody plot was known and approved by them for at least S year part, aod that the expenses of the conspirators were paid by Black Republican contributions, and that Kansas was but the training ground for these insurrec tionary forays. The effort to make Brown ap pear a madman, since he has failed, and to re gard the whole thing as a joke, has not diverted attention from the great facts developed and evi dences that eist of the aid derived by Brown! and bis associates even from Black Republican Senators and Governors. - The develooments nade by Col, Hugh Forbes, the military tutor of - Brown and his associates, have brought out a long letter from Horace Greeley, of the. Tribune which, though a letter of general denial, admits, substantially all the miin allegations, and shows both B.-own and Forbes to htve been Abolition agents throughout the whole Kansas strife. . HORACE GREELEY'S CONFESSION HE ENDORSES BROWN. As Forbes professed to be a capable and expe rienced military officer, especially qualified for guerilla or border warfare, and as he had always claimed to be aa earnest Red Republican and foe of every form of Human Slavery, I thought his resolution natural and commendable. Know ing him to be poor, I gave him $20, as be was starting; others gave him larger sums; how much in all, I do not know i but I think his total re ceipts from friends of Free Kansas on account of his resolve cannot have fallen below $700. He went was absent some months came back- that is all I know of bis services to the Free Kan sas cause in any shape. Whether because he was not needed, or was not trusted, or was found incompetent, I do not know I only know that be did nothing, and was practically worth noth ing. 1 believe be spent part of the money given him in printing a pamphlet embodying bis no-t.ons of guerilla or partisan warfare of course. no dollar ever came back. To this hour, I have never learned Uihai Brown (or any one else) promised Forbes, or how far the promiser professed to have the right to commit others. 1 do not believe that John Brown ever wilfully deceived himor any one else." I am very sure that no one was ever authorised ro en gage the services of " Col. Forbes" in behalf of the t ree state men of Kansas, on condition that said Forbes should be authorized to charge bis own price for those services, and draw at pleas ure on some responsible party for payment. I have never heard any one's version of the. matter but Forbes' ; nd I confidently infer from this, that if there was" mtftOal misunderstanding and disappointment in the premises, the employing party had decidedly the worst of it. Had Brown been any how indebted to Forbes for services to the Free State cause, I cannot doubt that be (B.) would have settled with him. and at least have acknowledged the obligation in writing. Had Brown stipulated that others should pay him money, he (B.) would at least have set tied the account, and have given him (F.)an order on the perron who was to pay it. : Mr. Greeley fully admits the agency of Brown and his authority to bind others in his arrangements ; nor does he in this regard him a madman. It was only after the failure of his bloody plans that he became " mad." Neither does it appear that at any time since 1856 Mr. GreeJeT has either lost confidence in Brown or refused to aid him in his iniquitous, treasonable and revolutionary work. " - LET i ER FROM JOHN BROWN. As every thing now relative to that misguided, doomed man has interest, we give a letter received by judge Tilden. The body of the letter is in . the hand writing of Sheriff Campbell, bat U is signed by " old Brown" himselft ' ' - Charlfsto, Jafferson Co, Oct. 22, J5. To il Uv. Jmdg4 Tilda, Fern Jlrls -. , Dkab Sir:-I am here a prisoner, with several sabre cots in thy head, and bayonet stabs in my body. My oVject in writing is to obtain able and faithful counsel for myself and fellow-prisoners, five in all, "as we have the faith of Virginia pledged, throosS her Governor, and un natrons prominent ci fcns, to gire as a fair trial. Withott wt ean obtain sdeb: cotfasel frooa without the slave State, neither the facts in our case can come be fore the world, nor can we have the' ben St of such facts as might be cossiiered'mitlgaling in the view of others epos oar trial. ' I have ciw3y V.- V- , t- -t r'P" - -r---i -. al property sufficient to pay a most liberal fee to yourself or any able man who will undertake our defence, if I can be allowed the benefit of said property. Canyon or some otter good man come o immediately, for the sake of the young men prisoners at least. My wounds are doing welL Do not send an ultra Abolitionist. Very respectfully, jours, Jobtt Browk. . P. S. The trial is set for Wednesday next, the loth inet. J. W. Campbell, Sheriff Jofferson Co. CONTEMPLATED RESCUE OF BROWN. The following despatch - was received by the superintendent at Harper's Ferry on Wednesday, -ie purport of which he - telegraphed io the Sec eUry of War, Gov. Wise, John Garrett and others, and which occasioned the movement of troops that day ftom Frederick and other points. Kew YorxU bet. 24th, '59. I would not be surprised if, from what 1 have heard, that there will be an attempt made by the Aooiiuonists ot me iNortn to release iirown and his associates from the ' Charlestown jail. I do not desire to add to the excitement already great but to write you as a caution. If an attempt is made it will be a hidden movement by a party of armed desperadoes employed by leaders in the free States. (Signed) Hesrt Hill. The above is from an officer of the army, a Virginian, personally known to Sup't Barbour. The Secretary of War has ordered forty marines to tie Harper's Ferry Armory. Arms have been distributed from the Armory to over two thousand citizens of Virginia. MASSASHDSETTS OFFICIALS INVOLVED.The following is from a: letter received by a gentleman in Charlestown the other day:- , Mail Car. Baltimore and Ohio R. R., Oct. 25, 1859 1 have been at Mr. MurdKl's, and Shs-fer's, and Maloney's, hardware dealers, in Baltimore, and have ascertained, beyond any cavil or doubt, that Francis J. Miriam is the man who purchased the amuniiion on last Fridav, one week ago, aod received v;a Adams 2z Co.'s Express fix hundred dollars from a party in Boston, all in gold coin. And this- man Miriam is' the man who sent the following despatch to a party in rostoc. . . Harpeh's Ferrt. Oct. 15. 1859. Lewis Hatdex, 77 Southac street, Secretary of atae Ottiee, btate ttouse, Boston: Orders disobeyed conditions broken. Pay a. immediatelv balance of my money. Alio further expense. Recall money advanced if not spent. Signed, Fraxcis J. MirUx. I think I can, if authorized, find out the names of-the parties who sent this Miriam the six hun dred dollars via Adms &, Co.' Express. Letter from Hon- C. L. Vallandingham The Harper' Ferry Insurrection. Dattos, O., Saturday, Oct. 22. To 1he Editor cf tlie Enquirer: The Cincinnati Gazette of yesterday contains what purports to be a conversation between John Brown, the Harper's Ferry insurgent, and my sen.. ioe eauonai crit.cism in tnat paper, while unjust, is, nevertheless, moderate and de cent in temper and language. Not so the vul gar, but inoffensive comments of the Commercial and the Ohio State Journal of to-day.Self-re-epect forbids to a gentleman any notice of such assamcs. . um me report ana eaitoriat ot the Gazette convey an erroneous impression, which I desire briefly to correct. fassing of necessity through Harper's Ferry, on Wednesday last, on my way home from Washington City, I laid over at that place be tween morning and evening trains for the West. Through the politeness cf Colonel Lee, the Commanding officer, I was allowed to enter the Armory inclosure. I inspected the several objects of interest there, and among them the ofSce building, I came to the room where Brown and Stephens lay, and went in, not aware that Senator Mason cr any reporief was present till I entered, and. without any purpose of asking a single question of the prisoners, and had there been no prisoners there I should have visited and inspected the place, just as I did, iu all these particulars.No " interview" was asked for by me or any one else ot John lirown, and none rranted. whether u voluntarily and out of pure good will " or otherwise. Brown had no voice in the matter, the room being open equally to all who were permitted to enter the Armory inclosure. All went and came alike, without consulting Brown; nor did he know either myself or the gentlemen with whom he conversed. Entering the room I found Senator Mason, of Vtrgioial there, casually, together with eight or ten others, and Brown conversing freely with all who chose to ad areas him. Indeed, he seemed eager to talk to every one ; and new visitors were coming and going every moment. There was no arrangement to have any reporter j nor did I observe for some minutes after I entered that any were present. Some one from New York was taking eketehes of Brown and Stevens during ibe conversation, and the reporter of the Herald made himself known to me a abort time afterward ; but I saw nothing of the Gazdie reporter till several hours later, and then at the hotel in the village. - . Finding Brown anxious to talk and ready to answer any one who chose to ask a question, and having heard that the insurrection bad been planned at the Ohio State Fair held at Zanes viile in September, I very naturally made the inquiry of him, among other thing, as to the truth of the statement. Learning from his answer that he bad lived in Ohio for fifty years, and had visited the Stale in S(ay or June last, I prosecuted my inquiries to ascertain what connection his conspiracy might have had with the O Berlin Rescue n Trials then pending, and the insurrectionay movement at that time made in the Western Reserve to organize forcible resis tance to the execution of the Fugitive Slave Law ; and I have now only t ' regret that I did not pursue the matter further, asking more questions, and making them more specific. It is possible that some others who are so tenderly sensitive ia regard to what was . developed, might ; have been equally implicated.- Indeed it vs incredible that a mere casual conversation, such as the one held by me with John Brown, should excite scch paroxysms of rage and call forth so aech vulgar bat impotent itaperaUoa, .unWa there-be mnch more yet undisclosed. Certain it is that three of the negroes, and they from bWrlla, aod at least six of the white men, nine ia all out of the nineteen, iodadieg John Brown, the leader of the insurrection, were, or hadbeen fnm Ohio, where they bad received sympathy and counsel, if aos material aid ia their conspiracy. -Bat tba visit and interrogation were both carn-a and did pot continue over. twenty minntee at the ln?Mt.Browj) so .far from being exhaust. i. volaateertd several ipeeches to the reporter, and more than ctce insisted that the convra-' lions fj: J r?4 dUisrb cr annoy him ia. the fcasL 21st, is generally very accurate, though several of the questions attributed to me, particularly tie first four, ought to have beep put. ia the mouth of Bystander," who, by the way, represents si least half a score of different persons. , , As to the charge preferred of breach of g'oc4 taste and propriety," and all, tha 2 -propose to judge of it for myleir, laving boeb present ca the occasion. There was neither interview,1; catechising. " ioquiailioa,n pumping,'1 ttet any effort of the kind, but a short and rasuaf conversation with she leader of a bold and mur deroos insurrection, a man of singular ibet'Ii-gence, in full possession of all his faculties, and anxious to explain his plans and motives so fas as was possible without implicating his confederates otherwise than by declining to answer. The developments are important lit (Ju pallet gademnetl , And now allow me to add, that it is vain to underrate either the man or his conspiracy. . Captj John Brown is as brave and resolute a man as ever headed an insurrection, and, in a gcod cause and with a sufficient force, would have been a, consummate partisan commander. He has coolness, darine, persiateocy, the stoic iaiih krd pa tience, and a firmness cf will and pnrpose cn-conqnerable. He is tall, wiry, muscular, but with little flesh with a cold, gray eye, gray hair board and mustache, compressed lips and iterp aquiline nose; of cast-iron face end frame, and with powers nf endurance equal to anything needed te be done or suffered in any catse. Though engaged in a wicked, mad ai d fanatical enterprise, he is the farthest possible rc-ove from the ordibaty ruffianvfahaticor madman; , but his powers are rather executory than ihve ntive, nd be never had the depth or breadth of mind to cr-iginate and contrive himself the .plan of infer rection which he undertook to carry out. The conspiracy was. unquestionably, far more extended than yet appears, numbering among- tee con spirators many more than the handful! of follow ers who assailed. Harper's Ferry, and having in the North and West, if hot also the South, is its counselors and abetters, men of tnelligeDCe. sition and wealth. Certainly it was one among the best planned and executed eonspiraces that' ever failed. F or two years he had been plotting and preper ing it with aiders and comforters a thousand miles apart, in the slave States and ibe free; fof six months he lived without so much as suspicion in a slave State and near the scene of the insurrection, winning even the esteem and confidence of his neighbors, vetcollectinr dar b dv lareW" . . - j - j j . quantities of arms, and making ready for the outbreak. He had as complete an equipmentj even to intrenching tools, as any eommacder iq a regular campaign, and intended, like Np4eoa to make ar support war. He had Sharpens ri fles and Maryland's revolvers for marksmen, and pikes for the slaves. In the dead hour of eighty crossing the Potomac, he seized the Armory with many thousand stands of arms and other munK tions of war- and ranking prisoners of more than 30 of the workmen, officers and citizens, overaw, ed the town of Harper's Ferry with its thousand inhabitants. With less than half a score of men surviving, be held the .armory for many hours,' refusing, though cut off from all succor, aod surrounded upon all sides, to surrender, and was taken with aword in hand, overpowered by superior numbers, yet fighting to the last. During the short insurrection eighteen men were killed and ten or more severely wounded twice tbe nnrober kilted and wounded on the part of the American force at the Battle of New Orleans. ' John Brown failed to excite, a .general and most wicked, bloody and desolating servile and civil war, only because the slaves and ton slave, holding white men of the vicinity, the former twenty thousand in cumber, would not rise. . He hd pre arel arms and amunition for fifteen hundred men. and captured, at the first blow, enough to arm more than fifty thousand; and yet he hrt less than thirty men more, nevertheless, than, have begun half the revolutions and conspiraclel which history records. But he had not tampered with slaves, nor solicited the non-slaveholdina; whites around him. because be reallv belietd that the moment the blow was etrnok thev would gather to hia standard, and expecting further. more, the promised reinforcements instantlv from the Norh and West. This was the basis on which the whole conspiracy was planned and had his belief been well founded he would unquestionably have succeeded, iu stirring np a most-formidable insurrection possibly involving the peace ot toe whole country, and renuinn. cer tainly, great armies and vast treasure to suppress it. .. Here was folly and madness. He beH$vi4: and acted upon the faith which for twenty years has been so persistently taught in every form throughout the free States, end which is but an other mode of statement , of the doctrine of the irrepressible conflict" that slavery and the three hundred and seventy thousand slave holders' ' of the South are only tolerated, and that the mil lions of slaves and non slave hoi ding white men! are ready and eager to rife againut the. "oli .' cby," needing only a leader and deliverer. The conspiracy was the natural and necessary conse quence of the doctrines proclaimed everv day year iu andyeSr Out by the apostles of 4 hoi itioa.;. But Brown was sincere, earnest, practical; he. proposed to add works to his faith, reckless of murder, treason, and everv c '.her crime. Thi was his madness and folly. He perishes juf!j and miserably an insnrgent and a felon, hot guiltier than he, and with his blood, upon tbei' beads, are the false nd cowardly propaefs iud teachers of Abolition. . C. L. VALLANDINGHAM. Letter trcn "W&ihizgicn. Below we give another Utter from a citizen ef Cleveland, now in Washington, on the subject Tsalterof the Harpers Ferry insurrection. Ia ; was not writ tea for publication bit is tivsrtl.' less worthy of iu iVoA Drmocrai. ; Willasd's Hotel. - ..) WasaieTOJi, Oct. 13, 1S53.) DrAR Flood: The proof is abundant that the Abolition '4 is of ibe Reserve" were cognizant of tha movement which Brown conlempUled, and furnished money and materials to aid him, I have nowr in my possession worlittn evidence of this fact," aod when i reach home the most skeptical crt be satified eppa that point. , Gidiinga, Charles : Lngston ecd others whom I do not thick itl b4i f name now. were aiders and abettors. " ,"' The Now York Herald, of to-morrow morning," will contain a mass of evidence, culled out from' a small portion only of the papers, tale a' from' :' Brown, in, which will be found evidence enoc;a' to prove the complicity of ths above named per-' , sons? sad some others in Cleveland and Mijh.", borhood. A' cipher Is used whsa it was fout.,1 ' " necessary to' name certain persons.' fjsle tla key to thiaefpher is foac-t nan tf Cs fa'J . with ns wd escape. - , - , . ... , m j Yoa win noiicw that OWIIn was vii'led, s-.-i ofcourse the 'Saiau' there were also y.ock- holders." Never were-traitors aui hypocriu v mora eompletely exposed and circunre-ici. t Every person in this eoentry will rsmeraber w'-.v 3 what horror from childhood they havelokei apoa the trtason "of Arnold. ' DV te d v ar, r." thing worse than the traitors cf CVh ? t'LT-r ' rapine, ravkhmeut, and all the horrtr cf I, ! hounds maddened against their own coor.'rr' ; and kinirel, followed li I'oo-.y f-t-rocihsiit his carchl jch wis lis f,t f r. was prtfrti for tre .;e r?:-i

VOLUME XXIII; MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1859. NUMBER 29; IS eCBLIftBrD ETMtT TliewiAT MOMIM, DTL.1IARPER. Office in TyoAdxard's Block, Third Story TERMS T'rNers rr annnro, payable in ed-vauoo; IJ.ftO within tit months: $3.00 after the ex-'pLraiioo of the year. Clcba of twenty, $1,50 eh. a av a ISTIIflllllt to 6 o a ; o v . a e S 5 B S 7.5" e.$ e.f-e .1 1 Wr, - 1 00 I 25,1 11 2 25 3 00.3 60 4 0 9 tO 1 T 7 n 1 &U 26 6 00 R 71 8 00 7 OoJb 00(1o t 80 3 60 4 30 5 CS A 00 4 jor, 1 CO I 00 s oolc 00 7 00 3 00.10 111 m4rTeaffM mntkly. 410 vlly .......... 15 g ckanpatlc ywirltrly, ................... ..... 18 f olmmm, rangrhU quarterly ............. 15 molumn, cangtabl quarterly, 20 1 eooma. agtnbU qmarteriy,. 45 gXf Twelve lines of Minien, (this type) are counted m a sqaare. p& Ed 1 tori' 1 aotieee of drertltncn, o calling :atwn4oa ay enterprise intended to benefit lndi-Vtdaal or eorporatione, will be eharged for at the yaee of 1 0 eente per line. . Special sotioet, bef ve marriage, or taking Vreoedenee of vegnlas atlvertteemente, double nana rates. " Kotleei for meetings, ebentable soaiettei,Crc ?&t4 for 50 .u ', Death. 31 eenta, nttleea accompanied by obttaario, which ell k. L a 1 X I . rtll be eharjred lor at regular advertliinjr raid C pSr Advertisements diiplayed in Urg type to be harped one-balf more than regular rntee. 9AU uenlMt ad.veUaementa to be paid for la dvaoee. gabies' fpartmcnt. The Hother. Scarcely a day passes that we do not hear of the loveliness of woman, the aflVet ion of a si ter, or the ue voted nens of awiie; and it is the remembrance of such things that, cheers and comU),U I be dreariest hour of hff j jtt a nioth-r' love far exceeds theiri in strength, in disinie rested ties-i and in pRrity. The child of her bos om may htve forsaken her and left her ; he may have disregarded all her instructions and warnings, he may have become an outcast fron society; and noiie may care fur or notice him yet h'n motner changes not, nor is her luve wenken-ed, and for hiin her prayers will ascend ! Sickness may weary other triends inUforiivne drive away familiar acquaintance?, and poverty leave none to lean upon ; yet they affect not a moih-. er'a love, but only call into exercise in a still greater degree her tenderness and aGVction. The mother has duties to perform which lire weighty and responsible j tboJispirii irjfnt must b taught bow to live the thoaghileSs child most be instructed in wisdom' ways Use tempted youth be advised and warned the dangers and difficulties of life must bo pointed out, and lessons of virtue must be itn pressed On the mind. Her words, acts, faults, frailties and temper, an: all noticed by those that 6urround h-r, and im pressions in the nursery exrt more pofiri"ul in fluence in farming the character, thiD do after instruction. All passions are unrestrained if truth is not adhered to if consistency is not seen if. there be want of affection or a rn'irruuring at the dis pennations of provideuce ; the youthful mit:d will receive the impression, an J subsequent life will develop it ; but if ail is purity, einceriiy, truth, contentment afidJove, then the result be a blessingnd many will n joice in the example and influence of the pious mother. Good Advice to Younj "Wonea. Trust not lo uucertain riches, but prepare yon-selves for every s emergency in life. - Leirn to work, and do not depend on servants lo make jodr bread ; sweep your fi iors anddrn your own stockings. Above all, do not esteem too lightly those honorable young men who sustain themselves and their aged parents by the work of their own hands, while you enressand receive into your company those lazy, idle popirjays, who never Jift.a finger to help themselves as long as they can keep body and soul together, and gel funds sufficient o live in fashion. If you are wise, you-will look at this subject in the light we do, and when yon are old enough to become wives you will prefer the honest mechanic, with not a ceut to commence life, to the fashionable loafer, with a capital of ten thousand dollars. TIT l 1 . . . r uenever we near remarked, - cfucn a young latdy married a fortune, we always tremble for ber future prosperity. Riches left to children by wealthy parents turn oat to be a corse instead of a blessings. Young women, remember this, and instead of sounding the purse of your lovers and examining the cut of their coats, look iato their habits and their hearts. Mark if they have a trade, and can depend opon themselves see that they have minds which will lead them to look above a butterfly existewe. Talk not of the beautiful while skin and soft delicate hand, the splendid form and flue appearance of the young gentlemen. Let not, these foolish considerations engross yoor thoughts." - Teach the Women tf Save. There's the secret. A 8a ving woman at the bead of a family is the very best savings bank yet established one thai receives deposits daily and hoarly, wiih ao costly machinery to manage it. The idea of saving is a pleasant one, and if the womea" woU imbibe it once, they woold CaltivaU and adhere to it, and thus many when they were awart of it, wonld b Uying the ! fcoadatioa to m exapetaac, aeourity ia ft mj lima, and iheher in a rainy 4ay. The wo-maa who seas to her own fcoort has a large field i ta aava iaf and the best way to make her comprehend it Is for ber to keep an account of enr- . rest xpensea. Probably not m wife Ja tea has as idsahow mnch araths expeaditores of ber- . self or family , Where from one or tvo thoasand 'ddtiar are expended annnally there is chttfc t3 save' Krraelbiog, if the attempt' is only made. Xet the hoasewifa Uka the idea act npoa it i . trlve over it and ' she wilt lire ' many ionrperIipi handreds where before she rjbl it irspcr;:U9. This is daf sot a prompting of avarice a- moral obligation that rests upon nil- upon tbe women" as well as he men; bat it is a duty, we are sorry to say, that is cultivated very little, even among those Who preach the most, aod regard themselves as examples to most matters. u Teach the women to save," is a good enough maxim to be inserted in the next edition of ''Poor Richard's Almanac," ints on Dcaltjj. The Swing1 as a Care for Consumption. Dr. Lawson Loner, of Holyyoke, Mass. writes to the editor of the Springfield Republican as fallows: I wish to say a few to "whom it may concern'' on the use of the swiog one of the gymnastic exercises as a preventive and cure of pulmonary disease. I mean the suspending of the boJy by the hands, by means of a strong rope, or chain-, fastened to a beam at one end, and at the other a Stick three feel long, convenient to grasp with the baudr. The rope should be fastened to the center of the stick, which should hang six or eight inches above the head. Let a person grasp this stick, wi;h the hands two or three feet apart, and swinj very moderately, at first P"h-I" be" h " Very weuk-and gradually increase,. as the muscles gain strength from the exercise, until it may be freely used from three to five ti toes daily. The connection of the arms with the body (with the exception of the clavicle with the ter-duo or breaai-boue,) being a muscular attach ment to the ribs, the effect of this exercise is to elevate the ribs and enlarge the chest; and as nature allows no vacuum, the lungs expand to till the cavity, increasing the volume of air the natural purifier of the blood and preventing congestion or the deposit of tuberculous matter-I have prescribed the above for air cases of he morrage of the lungs and thtealened consumption for thirty-five years, and have been able to iacrease the meHsure of the chest from two to four inches within a few mouths, and always with jrood res ii lis. lint, especially, as a preventive, I would recommend ibis exercise. Let those who love life cultivate a well formed, capacious chest. The student, the merchaut, the sedentary, the young of boh sexes aye, all should have a swing upon which to stretch themselves daily; and I am morally certain that if this were to be practiced by the rising generation, in a dress al-' lowing a free and full development of the lody thousands, yes ten of thousands would be saved from the ravages of that approbrium, coasump' tiuu. Valae of Pure Water. : Ilealth, can as well be upportd wilhobt pure water as without pure air. When either of these essentials of life are deteriorated by Bdmitture of foreign matters, disease will be a common if not a constant attendant. The ancients were aware of this fact. An old Roman writer informs Us that the livers and spleens of animals were inspect d in order to. judge of the salubrity of the waters and alimentary productions of a country, and to regulate accordingly the sites for- the constructions of cities. The size and ,had state of the above mentioned organs are, in fact, a pretty cer.ain sign of the uilalubrity of the pasturage and bad qualify of the waters. The rot in sheep, for example, is a disease of the liver and is generated by pasturing on low marshv grounds, and by drinking the water of Stagnant pools or ponds. The horse is known to thrive better when supplied with soft water, tbaii he will if obliged to drink hard water. The latter gives his coat a rough, unhealthy appearance; and his own in stinct prompts him, often to drink muddy rain water in preference to very hard well water. The inhabitants of a country exposed to the double infl'ience of bad water, and impure air, suffer much from disease, liad air will be comparatively innoeuoos, if pains be taken topro cure pure water. - Painful and unseemly eruptions of the skin, indigestion, and many other complaints, have been caused by the long use of bad water and have been cured by a substitution of this beverage in a purer state. Water used for domestic purposes, is commonly spoken of as soft or Jiard. Rain," snow,- and ice water, are examples of the former. Hard water is generally obtained from wells or springs The hardness depends chiefly on holding in so Tution super-carbonate of lime, (chalk) or sulphate of Time, (plaster of Paris) or both. A very small proportion of either of these salts is sufficient to give water the character of hardness? whereby it curdles in place of dissolving or in timately mixing with soap. River water is herd or soft, according to the j nature of the country through which it flows. The purest river water is that which Hows over a gravelly surface with a swift course. . . Exercise in the Open Air;-Moderate exercise m the open air, for the fjnr pose of assisting the various secretions, is another essential requisite for the prodoction and maintenance of good health. None can neglect this rule win impunity; bnta sedentary life is certainly not so detrimenUl to those who live on vegetable aiet. Unless sufficient oxygen be supplied to the longs by daily exercise in the open air, the : prodacts of Jeeonpoattioa will fail te be removed in sofScient faantity for the main tenance of a bealtby state; and the assimilation of new oaatter is impeded. Withoat exer'eise, also, the eootradile power of the heart and large Wfteries is feebly exerted; ; aed, though sofScieBt o carry the Wood t9 the ultimate tissue, it is oerertheless not strong enough to carry it through with the rapidity necessary for health. The olti mate tissue being thus filled faster than it is emptied, congestioa Ukes place in those delicate and important vessel 'which compose it; as'welVas ia thalatrgs Teliu, the See of which is to oa-fey the blood from the tiasaa to the heart. One of the chief condiatma of the body, id that generally ; U state of tealtSt uaaUy deBominated HiMilo'DtmU WBjtttica cf Uxi ia t&t'a&i- mte tissue of our organs the brain, the lungs, the spinal mat-raw, the stomach, the ganglionic system, the liver, bowels, and all the organs concerned in the nutrition of the body. 7hen the system, therefore, nndebilitated by disease, will admit a good supply of oxygen by mnscolar ex ercise, it is the best means of diminishing the amount of vinous blood, and (in conjunction with a le?iiiraate supply of proper food) of increasing the amonnt of arterial, blood: and in proportion as the latter preponderates over the former, shall we possess health and muscular strength, as well as elasticity of mind, Smith's Frtiils Farinaeea. Useful Medical Hint. The Medical Journal says: If a person swallow any pOisoa whatever, or has fallen into convulsions from having overloaded the stomach, an instantaneous remedy, more efficient and appli cable in a large number of causes than any half a dozen medicines we can now think. of, is a teaspoonful of common salt, and as much ground mustard stirred rapidly in a teacup of wafer, warm or cold, and swallowed instantly. It is -carcely down before it begins to come up bringing with it the remaining contents of the stom. acb; and lest there be any remnant of poison, however small, let the white of an egg, or a tea-cupful of strong coffee, be swallowed as soon as the stomach is quiet; because these very common articles nullify a larger number of virulent poisons than any medicines in the thops. In cAses of Scalding or burning the body, immersing the part in the cold water gives entire relief as instatjtaneonsly as lightning. Meanwhile, get some common dry floor, and apply it an inch or two thick on the irjured part the moment it emerges from the water, and keep on pprinkling the flour through anything like a pepper-box cover so as to put on evenly. Do nothing else, drink nothing but water, eat nothing, until improvement commences, except some dry bread,sof-tei ed in very weak tea of som'e kind. Cores of frightful buruinirs, have been performed in this way, K8 witiiderful as they are painless. We once svtd the life of an ; -infant which had. bt en inadvertently drugged with laU lanum and which was fast sinking i..to the sleep which has no waking, by giving it strong coffee, cleared with the white of an egg, a teaspoonful every "live mintites until itcea.sc-d to be drowsy." DON'T DEPEND ON FATHER. : Stand up here, young man, and. let us talk to yob. Von have trusted alone to the contents of i.':fathers purse," or to his ffir fame for your in- fluence t success in htfsinesS. Think you that "father" has attained to eminence in his profession but by unwearied industry? or that be has amassed a fortune honestly without energy and activity? You should know that the faculty requisite for the acquiring of fame and fortune is essential to, nay, inseparable from the retaining of either of these? Suppose ' father'' has the "rocks' in abundance; if you never earned anything for "him. you have no more business with lnose ""ocks" than a gosling has with a tortoise! nMf he allowa-ybnto meddle with them till you have learued their value by your own industry, he perpetrates untold mischief. And if the old ?e" eman 13 lavj6n , r hia cash towards you, while he allows you to idle away your time; you had better leave him; yeS, run away, sooner than be made an imbecile of a scoundrel through so cotttipting an influence; Sooner or later you must learn to rely on your own resources, or you will not be auybody. If you have ever helped yourself at all, if you have becomo idle, If you have eaten father's bread and butter and smoked father's cijjafs cut ft swell in father's baggy, and tried to put on fathers influence and reputation, I you might far better have been apoorcaral boy, the son of a chimney sweep, or a boot black and indeed we would not swap with you the situation of a poor, half starved motherless calJl Miserable objects you are, that tlepend entirely upon 70ur parenU, playing gentleman (alias dandy loafer). What in the name of common sense are you thinking of ? Wake op there! Go to work with eitber yoor bands or yonr brains, or botb, arid do something! Don't tberely have it to boast that you have growh in "father's" house that you have vegetatod as other greenhorns! but let folks know that you count one. Come, off with your koit, clinch the saw, the plow bandies, the scythe, he axe, the pickaxe, the spade anything that will enable you to stir your blood! "Fly round and tear your jacket," rather than be the recipient of the old gentle man's bounty. Sooner tbipR play the dandr at dad's expense, hire yourself out to some potato patch, let yourself to stop hog holes, or watch the bars; and when you think yourself entitled to a resting spell, do it on your own. hook. If you have no other means of having fun of yooi o wn, buy with your earnings an em pty barrel, and put your head into it and boiler, or get into it and roll down hill. Don't for pity's sake, don't make the old gentleman do everything, and yoa live at your. ease. ; . Look about you, yon welUresSed, smooth' faced, do-Dothing drones? Who are threy that have worth and influence rft society? Are they those that have depended alone on the old gentleman's purse? or are they those that have climbed their way to their position by their industry and energy? True, the old gentleman's funds, or personal influence, may secure yoa the forms of respect, bat let him lose bis property, or die, and what are you? A miserable fledgling a bunch of flesh aod bones that needs to be takes care of I : v" : . ' ; . . . :V Agaia we say, Srake sp get sp in the. more-iag turn round, at least twice before breakfast help the old to an give him now and then a generous lift in business learn how, take the lead, and aot depend forever on being led; and yon have do idea bow the discipline will benefit you.. Do t&sv sad oar word for.it, yon will eem to breathe a new atmosphere, pt3ef anew frame tread on new earth, wake to a ntw destiny and yon may then begin to aspire to manhood. Take tZt then that tin T frcn yoor EUy f --tr, VrV ijoutljs' gcjiavimmt. your cane, shave your upper Sp, wipe your nose, bold up yoor head, and, by til means, never a-gaiu eat the bread of idleness, jrca oepkvd 05 fatbcr! - ' She gemocratk gamier THE HARPER'S FEBBY IXSlRRECTIOX, Prominent Republicans Implicated. To present from the published correspondence of Col. H. Forbes, such facts as would appear to connect many prominent Republicans with the operations of the notorious Capt. Brown-These letters, were addressed to F. B. Sanborn-whois, or or was, tb Secretary of the Massach, usetts Emigrant Aid 'Society? This Col, H. Forbes was connected with Garibaldi in the defence of Rome in the revolution of 1848. Coming to the United Siatet, be seems to have been employed by the Abolitionists in connection with Brown to opemte in Kansas and elsewhere, as it might be deemed advUable. Col. Forbes, it ap pears, was to receive fundi from, his employers to be transmitted to kis family in Europe, in consideration of bis services; but it turns out thai the contract made with him by the Aboli tionists was not performed on their part, and the consequence was that lis family was greatly im' poverished. . . The Erst letter is dsted in New York on the 9th of January, 1838, and tecounts the sufferings of his family, and the din-performance of bis employers in the matter of pay, 4c.-" THK AKSWER BE OUT FROtt HOHi.CE OKEELCT.. In this name letter to Sanborn, Forbes says that Mr. Greeley told him' that he (Forbes) was alone to blame, that he oight to have known the money promised would not be paid, and although Mr. Greeley believed in thfc higher law, there was no way in which he (Forbes) could obtain redress by the lower law, aid iu this way excused the non-performance of tba contract which had been made with Forbes. ; REFEBEKCE TO SENATOR StMXER AKD aMOS T.aW You express surprise at biy letter -to Mr. Sumner, a3 if that were the first you ever heard on the subject. How, then,Jast summer, did you write from Massachusetts lo Cupt. B. at Tabor, Iowa, teliinjr:him that I hnti a few days previous br-en at -Davenport, on. ml .way; to join him? You sav that Mr. Amos Liwrenoe probably never beard of my. name. hbw, then, did he eive Capt. 13. a copy of tny 'Volunteer's nul?" 1 repent that every efifcrt . to shuffle off the responsibility makes the natter worse, and evey hour of d-Uy in forwardhg aid aggravates the crime,: Ordinary Stvagei would not behave so brutally. The very cantkibils do hot feed on the women and children of htir Own party they devour only such of their enemies As" they can catch. Vfe; U- FORBES. -, The next letter is to tie same person, and is prefaced by. the following head note: On tlie I5th January Mr. S inborn replied to jnine of the Sih. lie explained that he had tlo ie much to aid the catse; that he had caused $3,000 in moneyand aras to be given to Cot-B., also $J,0()0 to be voed for by the Chicago committee; of which he hd received $300; also had done many other thivgs of a similar nature as $l00, recently, for "lecret service" adding that, if he" had known if the engagement between Captain B. and myelf he would have sup- ported my wie and chilrert, rather than allow what has happened to tale place. . REFERENCE TO OERHITSXITH AXD OTHERS. When I left Ioa, thoigh iutensely anxious respecting my family, I did feel considerable confidence that the letter I had in October sent to Gerrit Smith had expkined the urgency of sending quickly succor tc Paris. Also, T felt a certain assurance that these sent to Mr. Joseph Bryant, of New York, hd convinced him that no delay oueht to b alicwed in forwarding assistance." But on reachitg the farm of young Brown, of Ohio, (where f was most kiudly received,) I got a letter ffon Mr. Morton, inform-: ing me that Mr. Smith ba'ing been very ill had not yet opened any of hit letters. . Mr Bryant did nothing. I also reeeved there the letter from Paris, dated Novemler I, already alluded to in my last; and then I taw that ray fears had not been exaggerated or mfounded, as Captain B. had almost persuaded ce that they were. ; Iu bis letter of January lath, to Sanborn, he refers to Capt. Brown, in tlis wise: JOHX BROWW'S ACCOr.KT VITn THI ABOLTTIOX TREascit; . There certainly is one eforj ind ihre nisy be others, in your letter of th 15ih, respecting 'the-sums rece:ved by Captain Brown; The National Committee which promBed-$5000, sent $150, (not $500 as you supposed, and tlie person who hrought the $150 charged $40 for expenses, leaving $110 only; This was all Captain Brown had when 1 joined him at labor. I am sure that bo would have given me. noney if he bad it any other stipbsition is out of the question. I cannot blame him for belitving in the force of mor! obligations. I only think that be was not sufficiently energetic in insininy upon their fulfilment. They are optional to make; bat once made are sacred Mr. Tidd, sent on a financial mission, may have brooght more in November. SECRET SERTICB VOXET. ' The $500 for secret service yoa speak of as being enough for the purpose, is not enough. This is another error, and a curious one. ; nrTERVlEW WtTHSEWARD. Washington, May 6, 1858. To Dr. S. "a Howe, M." D., Boston, Uass.: On Saturday (1st May) I bad an interview wixh Senator Win. H.Seward, of New York, having been introduced to him through a letter from a leading Abolitionist, Dr. Bailey, of the Era. I went fut iy into the whole' matter, io all its bearings. He expressed regret that h had been told, and said that he, in hia position, oaght not to have been informed of the circa instance, i In part I agree with bim and in part I diffr. I regret that the misconduct of the New Enelanders should have forced me to . address myself to him; bat being now enlightened on the subject, he cannot U Ut this hasieees eontiene ia its present crooked condition, instead of causing' h to be Mpntetraigbt," both as regards xaf childrew's ntuatiea as well as the cotton speculation of the humanitarians. .Forbes, next mentions an accidental meeting with J ohn P. Hale,' but such was the distress of his family that be did sot thes refer to Brown p!- , r :; ; :. '". -' -T 4, The next letter is crefaced .. witi'tie,icJIowicg memorandum : ..-:-:: r ; .-: wpeaae shew to Uessrs.- Saaborn, LawreDce, t-9i Cov"im will H f- t" Govt -t f" , wv- found money, and Governor Fletcher, who contributed arms, and to others interested, as quickly as possible. - . . "Dr. S. G. Howe, M. D Boston, Mas." The letter referred to. in the above is dated at Washington, D. C, May 14, 1858, and addressed to S. G. Howe, Boston. . This letter gives his own and Brown's plans of operating on the Southern States. Forbes plan was to organize along the Southern slave frontier a series. of slave stampedes. But the following is more to the point: " . , . browk's rui. Brown had a different scheme. He proposed with some twentrfiv6 or fifty (colored and white mixed,) well armed, and bringing a quantity of arms, iguM up w aiave quiner in v irginia. To this I object that, no preparatory notice having been given to the slaves (no notice could, with prudence, be given them,) the invitation to rise might, unless they were already in a state of agitation, meet with no response, or a feeble one. To this be replied that he was sure of a response. He calculated' that he could get, on the first nicrbt, from 200 to 500. Half, or thereabouts, of this first lot he proposed to keep with him, mounting 100 or so of them, and make a dash at Harper's Ferry mann-factory, destroying what he could not carry off. The other men not of this party were to be subdivided into three, four or five distinct parties, each uhdet- two or three of the original band, and wou.d beat up other slave quarters, whence more men would be sent to join him. ' BROWN TO BE STOPPED AKD DISARMED. For these and many other reasons I call on you and your associates to stop Brown, and to take from bim yonr arms, 4c. I have a right to exact this, and I do exact it. To your assertion that to stop Brown, I would denounce and betray, I echo what the Abolitionists here say, that if you do not, by taking from him your arms etc., stop him, you betray them, for this concerns the Abolitionists, and they have a rbht lb be neara. Black Eepublican Complicity in the Harper's Ferry Insurrection. 'The evidences of the complicity of such leading Black Republicans as Senator Seward, of N. York; Senators Wilson and Sumner of Massa chusetts'; Senator Halo and Ex-Governor Fletcher, of New Hampshire ; Governor Chase, of Ohio ; Hon. Gerrit Smith, ex-member of Congress ; Rev. Joshua Leavitt, of New York ; flor- acs Greeley, of the Iribune, and others, in the Harper's Ferry Tnsurrection, are daily accumu lating; and when the curtain shall have risen up on all the facts, no one will doubt that Brown's treasonable and bloody plot was known and approved by them for at least S year part, aod that the expenses of the conspirators were paid by Black Republican contributions, and that Kansas was but the training ground for these insurrec tionary forays. The effort to make Brown ap pear a madman, since he has failed, and to re gard the whole thing as a joke, has not diverted attention from the great facts developed and evi dences that eist of the aid derived by Brown! and bis associates even from Black Republican Senators and Governors. - The develooments nade by Col, Hugh Forbes, the military tutor of - Brown and his associates, have brought out a long letter from Horace Greeley, of the. Tribune which, though a letter of general denial, admits, substantially all the miin allegations, and shows both B.-own and Forbes to htve been Abolition agents throughout the whole Kansas strife. . HORACE GREELEY'S CONFESSION HE ENDORSES BROWN. As Forbes professed to be a capable and expe rienced military officer, especially qualified for guerilla or border warfare, and as he had always claimed to be aa earnest Red Republican and foe of every form of Human Slavery, I thought his resolution natural and commendable. Know ing him to be poor, I gave him $20, as be was starting; others gave him larger sums; how much in all, I do not know i but I think his total re ceipts from friends of Free Kansas on account of his resolve cannot have fallen below $700. He went was absent some months came back- that is all I know of bis services to the Free Kan sas cause in any shape. Whether because he was not needed, or was not trusted, or was found incompetent, I do not know I only know that be did nothing, and was practically worth noth ing. 1 believe be spent part of the money given him in printing a pamphlet embodying bis no-t.ons of guerilla or partisan warfare of course. no dollar ever came back. To this hour, I have never learned Uihai Brown (or any one else) promised Forbes, or how far the promiser professed to have the right to commit others. 1 do not believe that John Brown ever wilfully deceived himor any one else." I am very sure that no one was ever authorised ro en gage the services of " Col. Forbes" in behalf of the t ree state men of Kansas, on condition that said Forbes should be authorized to charge bis own price for those services, and draw at pleas ure on some responsible party for payment. I have never heard any one's version of the. matter but Forbes' ; nd I confidently infer from this, that if there was" mtftOal misunderstanding and disappointment in the premises, the employing party had decidedly the worst of it. Had Brown been any how indebted to Forbes for services to the Free State cause, I cannot doubt that be (B.) would have settled with him. and at least have acknowledged the obligation in writing. Had Brown stipulated that others should pay him money, he (B.) would at least have set tied the account, and have given him (F.)an order on the perron who was to pay it. : Mr. Greeley fully admits the agency of Brown and his authority to bind others in his arrangements ; nor does he in this regard him a madman. It was only after the failure of his bloody plans that he became " mad." Neither does it appear that at any time since 1856 Mr. GreeJeT has either lost confidence in Brown or refused to aid him in his iniquitous, treasonable and revolutionary work. " - LET i ER FROM JOHN BROWN. As every thing now relative to that misguided, doomed man has interest, we give a letter received by judge Tilden. The body of the letter is in . the hand writing of Sheriff Campbell, bat U is signed by " old Brown" himselft ' ' - Charlfsto, Jafferson Co, Oct. 22, J5. To il Uv. Jmdg4 Tilda, Fern Jlrls -. , Dkab Sir:-I am here a prisoner, with several sabre cots in thy head, and bayonet stabs in my body. My oVject in writing is to obtain able and faithful counsel for myself and fellow-prisoners, five in all, "as we have the faith of Virginia pledged, throosS her Governor, and un natrons prominent ci fcns, to gire as a fair trial. Withott wt ean obtain sdeb: cotfasel frooa without the slave State, neither the facts in our case can come be fore the world, nor can we have the' ben St of such facts as might be cossiiered'mitlgaling in the view of others epos oar trial. ' I have ciw3y V.- V- , t- -t r'P" - -r---i -. al property sufficient to pay a most liberal fee to yourself or any able man who will undertake our defence, if I can be allowed the benefit of said property. Canyon or some otter good man come o immediately, for the sake of the young men prisoners at least. My wounds are doing welL Do not send an ultra Abolitionist. Very respectfully, jours, Jobtt Browk. . P. S. The trial is set for Wednesday next, the loth inet. J. W. Campbell, Sheriff Jofferson Co. CONTEMPLATED RESCUE OF BROWN. The following despatch - was received by the superintendent at Harper's Ferry on Wednesday, -ie purport of which he - telegraphed io the Sec eUry of War, Gov. Wise, John Garrett and others, and which occasioned the movement of troops that day ftom Frederick and other points. Kew YorxU bet. 24th, '59. I would not be surprised if, from what 1 have heard, that there will be an attempt made by the Aooiiuonists ot me iNortn to release iirown and his associates from the ' Charlestown jail. I do not desire to add to the excitement already great but to write you as a caution. If an attempt is made it will be a hidden movement by a party of armed desperadoes employed by leaders in the free States. (Signed) Hesrt Hill. The above is from an officer of the army, a Virginian, personally known to Sup't Barbour. The Secretary of War has ordered forty marines to tie Harper's Ferry Armory. Arms have been distributed from the Armory to over two thousand citizens of Virginia. MASSASHDSETTS OFFICIALS INVOLVED.The following is from a: letter received by a gentleman in Charlestown the other day:- , Mail Car. Baltimore and Ohio R. R., Oct. 25, 1859 1 have been at Mr. MurdKl's, and Shs-fer's, and Maloney's, hardware dealers, in Baltimore, and have ascertained, beyond any cavil or doubt, that Francis J. Miriam is the man who purchased the amuniiion on last Fridav, one week ago, aod received v;a Adams 2z Co.'s Express fix hundred dollars from a party in Boston, all in gold coin. And this- man Miriam is' the man who sent the following despatch to a party in rostoc. . . Harpeh's Ferrt. Oct. 15. 1859. Lewis Hatdex, 77 Southac street, Secretary of atae Ottiee, btate ttouse, Boston: Orders disobeyed conditions broken. Pay a. immediatelv balance of my money. Alio further expense. Recall money advanced if not spent. Signed, Fraxcis J. MirUx. I think I can, if authorized, find out the names of-the parties who sent this Miriam the six hun dred dollars via Adms &, Co.' Express. Letter from Hon- C. L. Vallandingham The Harper' Ferry Insurrection. Dattos, O., Saturday, Oct. 22. To 1he Editor cf tlie Enquirer: The Cincinnati Gazette of yesterday contains what purports to be a conversation between John Brown, the Harper's Ferry insurgent, and my sen.. ioe eauonai crit.cism in tnat paper, while unjust, is, nevertheless, moderate and de cent in temper and language. Not so the vul gar, but inoffensive comments of the Commercial and the Ohio State Journal of to-day.Self-re-epect forbids to a gentleman any notice of such assamcs. . um me report ana eaitoriat ot the Gazette convey an erroneous impression, which I desire briefly to correct. fassing of necessity through Harper's Ferry, on Wednesday last, on my way home from Washington City, I laid over at that place be tween morning and evening trains for the West. Through the politeness cf Colonel Lee, the Commanding officer, I was allowed to enter the Armory inclosure. I inspected the several objects of interest there, and among them the ofSce building, I came to the room where Brown and Stephens lay, and went in, not aware that Senator Mason cr any reporief was present till I entered, and. without any purpose of asking a single question of the prisoners, and had there been no prisoners there I should have visited and inspected the place, just as I did, iu all these particulars.No " interview" was asked for by me or any one else ot John lirown, and none rranted. whether u voluntarily and out of pure good will " or otherwise. Brown had no voice in the matter, the room being open equally to all who were permitted to enter the Armory inclosure. All went and came alike, without consulting Brown; nor did he know either myself or the gentlemen with whom he conversed. Entering the room I found Senator Mason, of Vtrgioial there, casually, together with eight or ten others, and Brown conversing freely with all who chose to ad areas him. Indeed, he seemed eager to talk to every one ; and new visitors were coming and going every moment. There was no arrangement to have any reporter j nor did I observe for some minutes after I entered that any were present. Some one from New York was taking eketehes of Brown and Stevens during ibe conversation, and the reporter of the Herald made himself known to me a abort time afterward ; but I saw nothing of the Gazdie reporter till several hours later, and then at the hotel in the village. - . Finding Brown anxious to talk and ready to answer any one who chose to ask a question, and having heard that the insurrection bad been planned at the Ohio State Fair held at Zanes viile in September, I very naturally made the inquiry of him, among other thing, as to the truth of the statement. Learning from his answer that he bad lived in Ohio for fifty years, and had visited the Stale in S(ay or June last, I prosecuted my inquiries to ascertain what connection his conspiracy might have had with the O Berlin Rescue n Trials then pending, and the insurrectionay movement at that time made in the Western Reserve to organize forcible resis tance to the execution of the Fugitive Slave Law ; and I have now only t ' regret that I did not pursue the matter further, asking more questions, and making them more specific. It is possible that some others who are so tenderly sensitive ia regard to what was . developed, might ; have been equally implicated.- Indeed it vs incredible that a mere casual conversation, such as the one held by me with John Brown, should excite scch paroxysms of rage and call forth so aech vulgar bat impotent itaperaUoa, .unWa there-be mnch more yet undisclosed. Certain it is that three of the negroes, and they from bWrlla, aod at least six of the white men, nine ia all out of the nineteen, iodadieg John Brown, the leader of the insurrection, were, or hadbeen fnm Ohio, where they bad received sympathy and counsel, if aos material aid ia their conspiracy. -Bat tba visit and interrogation were both carn-a and did pot continue over. twenty minntee at the ln?Mt.Browj) so .far from being exhaust. i. volaateertd several ipeeches to the reporter, and more than ctce insisted that the convra-' lions fj: J r?4 dUisrb cr annoy him ia. the fcasL 21st, is generally very accurate, though several of the questions attributed to me, particularly tie first four, ought to have beep put. ia the mouth of Bystander," who, by the way, represents si least half a score of different persons. , , As to the charge preferred of breach of g'oc4 taste and propriety," and all, tha 2 -propose to judge of it for myleir, laving boeb present ca the occasion. There was neither interview,1; catechising. " ioquiailioa,n pumping,'1 ttet any effort of the kind, but a short and rasuaf conversation with she leader of a bold and mur deroos insurrection, a man of singular ibet'Ii-gence, in full possession of all his faculties, and anxious to explain his plans and motives so fas as was possible without implicating his confederates otherwise than by declining to answer. The developments are important lit (Ju pallet gademnetl , And now allow me to add, that it is vain to underrate either the man or his conspiracy. . Captj John Brown is as brave and resolute a man as ever headed an insurrection, and, in a gcod cause and with a sufficient force, would have been a, consummate partisan commander. He has coolness, darine, persiateocy, the stoic iaiih krd pa tience, and a firmness cf will and pnrpose cn-conqnerable. He is tall, wiry, muscular, but with little flesh with a cold, gray eye, gray hair board and mustache, compressed lips and iterp aquiline nose; of cast-iron face end frame, and with powers nf endurance equal to anything needed te be done or suffered in any catse. Though engaged in a wicked, mad ai d fanatical enterprise, he is the farthest possible rc-ove from the ordibaty ruffianvfahaticor madman; , but his powers are rather executory than ihve ntive, nd be never had the depth or breadth of mind to cr-iginate and contrive himself the .plan of infer rection which he undertook to carry out. The conspiracy was. unquestionably, far more extended than yet appears, numbering among- tee con spirators many more than the handful! of follow ers who assailed. Harper's Ferry, and having in the North and West, if hot also the South, is its counselors and abetters, men of tnelligeDCe. sition and wealth. Certainly it was one among the best planned and executed eonspiraces that' ever failed. F or two years he had been plotting and preper ing it with aiders and comforters a thousand miles apart, in the slave States and ibe free; fof six months he lived without so much as suspicion in a slave State and near the scene of the insurrection, winning even the esteem and confidence of his neighbors, vetcollectinr dar b dv lareW" . . - j - j j . quantities of arms, and making ready for the outbreak. He had as complete an equipmentj even to intrenching tools, as any eommacder iq a regular campaign, and intended, like Np4eoa to make ar support war. He had Sharpens ri fles and Maryland's revolvers for marksmen, and pikes for the slaves. In the dead hour of eighty crossing the Potomac, he seized the Armory with many thousand stands of arms and other munK tions of war- and ranking prisoners of more than 30 of the workmen, officers and citizens, overaw, ed the town of Harper's Ferry with its thousand inhabitants. With less than half a score of men surviving, be held the .armory for many hours,' refusing, though cut off from all succor, aod surrounded upon all sides, to surrender, and was taken with aword in hand, overpowered by superior numbers, yet fighting to the last. During the short insurrection eighteen men were killed and ten or more severely wounded twice tbe nnrober kilted and wounded on the part of the American force at the Battle of New Orleans. ' John Brown failed to excite, a .general and most wicked, bloody and desolating servile and civil war, only because the slaves and ton slave, holding white men of the vicinity, the former twenty thousand in cumber, would not rise. . He hd pre arel arms and amunition for fifteen hundred men. and captured, at the first blow, enough to arm more than fifty thousand; and yet he hrt less than thirty men more, nevertheless, than, have begun half the revolutions and conspiraclel which history records. But he had not tampered with slaves, nor solicited the non-slaveholdina; whites around him. because be reallv belietd that the moment the blow was etrnok thev would gather to hia standard, and expecting further. more, the promised reinforcements instantlv from the Norh and West. This was the basis on which the whole conspiracy was planned and had his belief been well founded he would unquestionably have succeeded, iu stirring np a most-formidable insurrection possibly involving the peace ot toe whole country, and renuinn. cer tainly, great armies and vast treasure to suppress it. .. Here was folly and madness. He beH$vi4: and acted upon the faith which for twenty years has been so persistently taught in every form throughout the free States, end which is but an other mode of statement , of the doctrine of the irrepressible conflict" that slavery and the three hundred and seventy thousand slave holders' ' of the South are only tolerated, and that the mil lions of slaves and non slave hoi ding white men! are ready and eager to rife againut the. "oli .' cby," needing only a leader and deliverer. The conspiracy was the natural and necessary conse quence of the doctrines proclaimed everv day year iu andyeSr Out by the apostles of 4 hoi itioa.;. But Brown was sincere, earnest, practical; he. proposed to add works to his faith, reckless of murder, treason, and everv c '.her crime. Thi was his madness and folly. He perishes juf!j and miserably an insnrgent and a felon, hot guiltier than he, and with his blood, upon tbei' beads, are the false nd cowardly propaefs iud teachers of Abolition. . C. L. VALLANDINGHAM. Letter trcn "W&ihizgicn. Below we give another Utter from a citizen ef Cleveland, now in Washington, on the subject Tsalterof the Harpers Ferry insurrection. Ia ; was not writ tea for publication bit is tivsrtl.' less worthy of iu iVoA Drmocrai. ; Willasd's Hotel. - ..) WasaieTOJi, Oct. 13, 1S53.) DrAR Flood: The proof is abundant that the Abolition '4 is of ibe Reserve" were cognizant of tha movement which Brown conlempUled, and furnished money and materials to aid him, I have nowr in my possession worlittn evidence of this fact," aod when i reach home the most skeptical crt be satified eppa that point. , Gidiinga, Charles : Lngston ecd others whom I do not thick itl b4i f name now. were aiders and abettors. " ,"' The Now York Herald, of to-morrow morning," will contain a mass of evidence, culled out from' a small portion only of the papers, tale a' from' :' Brown, in, which will be found evidence enoc;a' to prove the complicity of ths above named per-' , sons? sad some others in Cleveland and Mijh.", borhood. A' cipher Is used whsa it was fout.,1 ' " necessary to' name certain persons.' fjsle tla key to thiaefpher is foac-t nan tf Cs fa'J . with ns wd escape. - , - , . ... , m j Yoa win noiicw that OWIIn was vii'led, s-.-i ofcourse the 'Saiau' there were also y.ock- holders." Never were-traitors aui hypocriu v mora eompletely exposed and circunre-ici. t Every person in this eoentry will rsmeraber w'-.v 3 what horror from childhood they havelokei apoa the trtason "of Arnold. ' DV te d v ar, r." thing worse than the traitors cf CVh ? t'LT-r ' rapine, ravkhmeut, and all the horrtr cf I, ! hounds maddened against their own coor.'rr' ; and kinirel, followed li I'oo-.y f-t-rocihsiit his carchl jch wis lis f,t f r. was prtfrti for tre .;e r?:-i